Huntley, John Wilson, 1833-1928. John Wilson Huntley papers, 1883-1962 ; (bulk, 1883-1928).
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John Wilson Huntley papers, 1883-1962 ; (bulk, 1883-1928).
Letters and journals document the daily social and business activities of this church layman, entrepreneur, and farmer; including personal background information re Huntley's family, his Confederate military experience, and birth and death dates of his wife and children; journal entries, 1905, written at Kershaw, S.C.; later entries discuss his childhood, marriage, etc. Diary entries detail travels within South Carolina, weather and seasonal plantings, work in the insurance and furniture business, social visits to relatives and friends, commercial development in Rock Hill, S.C., family illnesses, deaths, marriages, and Huntley's chronic health problems, including 1 May 1917, in which he reports health problems ca. 1856, when he began selling books, and his invention of a cotton seed planter, patented in Aug. 1859. Diary topics include lynching of John Morrison for murder of Willie Floyd (1 Oct. 1904); Cole / Orman murder case at Rockingham, N.C. (Sept.-Oct. 1925); "swine flu" and other influenza epidimics and quarantines; lecture by Helen Keller (7 Oct. 1913); visit of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison to South Carolina (29 Aug. 1918); President Woodrow Wilson's visit to Charlotte, N.C. (20 May 1916); destruction of Clover Cotton [Oil?] Mill by a cyclone (3 Aug. 1912); and balloting in Rock Hill, S.C., for prohibition (14 Sept. 1915). Entries re Huntley's activities as a Confederate veteran note attendance at numerous gatherings in South Carolina, aand reunions at Roanoke, Va. (1913), Jacksonville, Fla. (1914), and Washington, D.C. (1917). Volumes contains both contemporary entries and retrospective autobiographical notes. Includes newspaper obituaries for Isaac S. Huntley (d. 1922) and Huntley family genealogical information; correspondents include Lula Craycroft, J. Sam Griffin, Morris T. Griffin, F.J. Huntley, Lawrence B. Huntley, Leila J. Huntley, M.M. Huntley, Ola Huntley, S.F. Huntley, Belle King, T.F. Sikes, S.A. Stallings, Annie Todd, and Addie E. Wright.
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